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XCOM: Enemy Unknown PAX East Trailer Gets Us Better Acquainted With the Enemy

Other than a new trainyard map, this shakycam XCOM: Enemy Unknown footage from PAX East shows very little gameplay I haven't already seen --a four-man XCOM squad takes on a group of Sectoids and then a group of Mutons and a Berzerker -- but it sure does look sexy. We do see a Muton use a plasma grenade, and for the first time in one of these demos a Muton takes a shotgun blast to the face without dying -- good tosee they're not weaklings after all! Note that XCOM's not actually quite this fast-paced in reality -- there's some fancy editing going on here that hides most of the actual giving of orders.

My only concern is that the aliens' flourish animations they do when they're first spotted are already starting to get repetitive, and I've only seen them a few times. It's spot at the top of my most-anticipated of 2012 list remains secure, though.